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Hello and welcome to Coffee House Shots, the Spectator's Daily Politics Podcast. I'm Cindy

Yu and I'm joined by Fraser Nelson and Katie Balls. It's a big week for Boris Johnson,

but instead of the roadmap that he is set to announce today, everyone's

talking about something slightly different. Katie, can you tell us about the latest number 10

backstabbing turbulence? Yes, so we heard on Friday night the news that Oliver Lewis had resigned.

He was head of the Union Unit and had been in that position for a grand total of two weeks.

Previously, it was Luke Graham, who was shown the

door. But ultimately, this came after David Frost had been promoted in the middle of the week,

so I'm going to talk about this podcast, to a member of the cabinet, minister of state,

in charge of ultimately Brexit relations with the EU. Now, when that first was reported,

quickly we began to hear that all was

not well in number 10. There was some kickback saying everything is well in number 10, but ultimately

there was a sense that after, and we are going to get quite into the specifics here, after

Simone Finn was appointed deputy chief of staff about a week ago and Henry Newman, a former Michael

Gove advisor was appointed as a senior advisor to number 10. It created ructions. It led to some because

lots of people thought this was a shift in some of the policy perspectives. Would they be more

what Michael Gove thought than what some who'd been around Boris for a longer period thought?

And it also reopened some old wounds if you look back to the vote leave Exodus before Christmas.

So Henry Newman is a long-standing advisor to Michael Gove.

He is also a close friend of Carrie Simmons, who is the Prime Minister's fiancé.

Simone Finn, Baroness Finn, is a former advisor to Michael Gove

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